Art in its execution and direction is dependent on the time in which it lives, and artists are creatures of their epoch. The highest art will be that which in its conscious content presents the thousandfold problems of the day, the art which has been visibly shattered by the explosions of last week, which is forever trying to collect its limbs after yesterday’s crash.
RICHARD HUELSENBECK (1892–1974) was a Dada drummer, famous for loud, invented African chants ending in ‘Umba! Umba!’, and in later life a New York psychoanalyst, trading under the name of Dr Charles R. Hulbeck.
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